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The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2009 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1935-5726 EISSN: 1935-5734 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijisscm

GUEST EDITORAL PREFACE Collaborative Supply Chain Management Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia

Globalization and the advances in the development of new technologies have a deep impact on the development and the positioning of companies on international marketplaces. In addition, customers are more demanding in term of quality, lead time, and order fulfillment. Firms must anticipate customers� requests and adapt to market changes. This quest for flexibility and reactivity affects the conception and the management of firms and more generally their logistic systems and contributes to the development of partnership relations, to the emergence of mergers or strategic alliances between companies. The purpose of this special issue on collaborative supply chain management is to publish selected research articles from academicians and practitioners that examine the aspects related with internal and external logistics and operations management within a collaborative context.

To read the guest editor preface, please consult this issue of IJISSCM in your institution�s library.

PAPER ONE Analyzing the Impact of Coordinated Decisions within a Three-Echelon Supply Chain

Mauricio Núñez-Muñoz, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia

Supply chain performance is highly influenced by the coordination level between its members. In this article, the authors consider a three-echelon direct sell supply chain model and focus on the problem of coordinated decision-making between its members. The authors present an approach that measures the impact of the degree of coordination between the members. Using a geometric brownian process, demand behavior is modeled. Simulation models are run in order to analyze various cooperation scenarios.

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PAPER TWO An Approach of Decision-Making Support Based on Collaborative Agents for Unexpected Rush Orders Management

El Habib Nfaoui, University of Lyon, France and University of Sidi Med Ben AbdEllah, Morocco Omar El Beqqali, University of Sidi Med Ben AbdEllah, Morocco Yacine Ouzrout, University of Lyon, France Abdelaziz Bouras, University of Lyon, France

Decisions at different levels of the supply chain can no longer be considered independently since they may influence profitability throughout the supply chain. This paper focuses on the interest of multi-agent paradigms for the collaborative coordination in global distribution supply chains. Multi-agent computational environments are suitable for a broad class of coordination and negotiation issues involving multiple autonomous or semiautonomous problem solving contexts. The authors propose an agent-based distributed architecture to better the management of rush unexpected orders and presents a first architecture validated by a real and industrial case.

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PAPER THREE Supply Chain Coordination by Contracts with Inventory Holding Cost Share

Alejandra Gomez-Padilla, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

In this document, the author analyzes the importance of contracts for coordination between two companies in a supply chain. In the studied situation, one company or supplier, supplies one product to the other company, who is a retailer. The companies coordinate by two types of decisions: economic (concerning prices fixed on a contract) and physical exchange (concerning the inventory to be held). Two types of contracts are presented: one contract with a simple pricing scheme and two contracts with inventory holding cost shared among the companies of the supply chain.

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PAPER FOUR Measuring the Impact of Supplier-Customer Information Sharing on Production Scheduling

Gloria Rodríguez-Verjan, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia

Nowadays, implementing collaboration strategies between the members of the supply chain have to obtain a more reactive and flexible supply chain in highly competitive markets have been an important research topic. However, few studies have been done on the impact of such collaboration strategies at one of the lower short-term decision levels: production scheduling. This article is devoted to the study of information sharing between the members of a supply chain in a dynamic context. The authors consider a typical made-to-order direct sell supply chain without finished products inventory, similar to the one implemented by Internet PC sellers. This article compares various scheduling algorithms implemented to study different scenarios of information sharing among the members of the chain. The authors consider scenarios where no information is shared and scenarios where some or all information is shared. The authors develop a simulation study in order obtain insights about the impact of information sharing on the performance of the chain.

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PAPER FIVE Optimal Solutions for a Multi-Product, Multi-Echelon Production and Replenishment System

Fidel Torres, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Gonzalo Mejía, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

The effective coordination is a key element in the success of many cooperative supply chains. The production, distribution, and supply must be adequately synchronized in order to satisfy the customer needs and at the same time optimize operational costs. This article presents a multi-product, multi-echelon inventory system, which comprises one manufacturer, a number of distribution centers, and a number of retailers. The near-optimal order quantities for each of the supply chain agents are calculated with a mathematical model. The authors generate and test a number of instances.

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Mission of IJISSCM:

The International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM) provides a practical and comprehensive forum for exchanging novel research ideas or down-to-earth practices which bridge the latest information technology and supply chain management. IJISSCM encourages submissions on how various information systems improve supply chain management, as well as how the advancement of supply chain management tools affects the information systems growth. The aim of this journal is to bring together the expertise of people who have worked with supply chain management across the world for people in the field of information systems.

Coverage of IJISSCM:

Advanced planning and scheduling Artificial intelligence and decision making Bias, misinformation, and disinformation in informing systems Business intelligence and knowledge management Case-based reasoning Component-based information systems Computational econometrics Conceptual modeling Creative decision making and problem solving Customer value and customer relationship management Decision-making systems Decision making on supply chain management Decision models for information system design Decision-support systems for supply chain management Demand management E-business and decision making E-commerce and supply chain management Enterprise information systems Expert systems Geographic information systems Group support systems and groupware technologies Hybrid intelligent systems Implementing and integrating supply chain management Information systems and economic analysis Information systems and organizational behavior Information systems security Intelligent Systems over the Internet Interfirm networks IT for business forecasting Just-in-time and lean systems Logistics management Logistics network configuration Matching supply with demand Management Information Systems Modeling and analysis Multimedia and decision making Multiple-objective decision making Optimization and simulation Organizational information systems Performance management Reasoning and decision making under uncertainty Revenue management Risk management Strategic information systems and strategic alliances Supplier and customer relationship management Supply chain integration and coordination

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijisscm.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: John Wang at journalswang@gmail.com

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